Here is the list for volume 2. If you have suggestions to update, please let me know.

Note: The ones that are in italics are not in the History Through the Ages set. I have managed to find some of these online, and had to skip some. MOH 3 Additional Figures Set is an add-on set that goes with Mystery of History, volume 3 that can be purchased for $2.95 and downloaded from Homeschool in the Woods. (Scroll to almost the bottom of the page, if you follow my link.) World Geography Timeline Figures are timeline figures by Amy Pak that are sold by Heart of Dakota.

We have fallen in love with the Story of the World history books. The writing style is so engaging and it appeals to the youngest and the oldest in our home and everybody in between. It is not what my high schoolers are using for history, but they still enjoy sitting and listening while I read to the younger children.

I also love the History Through the Ages timelines by Homeschool in the Woods. And I want to use them with Story of the World. Mystery of History includes what timeline pieces correspond with the chapters, but I haven’t found a comprehensive list for Story of the World, so I am working my way through the volumes and creating my own list.

Here is the list for volume 1. If you have suggestions to update, I’d love to know them as I’m afraid I missed some.

Note: The ones that are in italics are not in the History Through the Ages set. I have managed to find some of these online, and had to skip some.

HTTA Timeline Figures for SOTW Vol. 1

Introduction

[None]

Chapter 1

[None]

Chapter 2

Menes

Egyptian Civilization Begins

1st and 2nd Egyptian Dynasties

Chapter 3

Sumerian Civilization Begins,

Sumerian cuneiform

Chapter 4

3rd and 4th dynasties (Old Kingdom)

5th and 6th dynasties (Old Kingdom)

Cheops (Khufu)

Chapter 5

Akkadian Civilization

Sargon

Chapter 6

Sumerian Royal Standard of Ur

Abraham and Sarah

Canaanites Settle Canaan

Isaac

Jacob and Esau (Note: Only Jacob is mentioned in the text.)

Joseph

Chapter 7

Hammurabi

Chapter 8

Assyrian civilization

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Shamsi-Adad

Chapter 9

Indus River Valley Civilization

Mohenjo Daro

Chapter 10

Shang Dynasty

Huang Di

Leizu

Chapter 11

Climate Change In The Sahara

Chapter 12

7th and 8th Egyptian Dynasties

9th, 10th, and 11th Egyptian Dynasties

11th and 12th Egyptian Dynasties

13th Egyptian Dynasty

Hyksos Invasion & Influence

Chapter 13

14th and 15th Egyptian Dynasties

16th Egyptian Dynasty

17th Egyptian Dynasty

18th Egyptian Dynasty

Queen Hatshepsut

Amenhotep IV

Tutankhamen

Thutmose I

Chapter 14

Moses and the Exodus

Chapter 15

The Phoenician Civilization

Dido

Carthage

Chapter 16

King Ashurbanipal

Powers of Mesopotamia

Library of Ninevah

Tiglath-Pilesar III

Chapter 17

King Nebuchadnezzar

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Destruction of Nineveh

Babylonian Empire

Chapter 18

Minoan Civilization

Chapter 19

Mycenaean Civilization

The Philistines

Dorians and Ionians Begin To Settle In Greece

Chapter 20

Greek Language Gains an Alphabet

Homer

The Olympic Games

Zeus

The Odyssey, by Homer

Chapter 21

Cyrus’ Proclamation

End of Babylon

Jews Returned Home

Jews taken into Captivity Stages 1, 2, 3

Medo-Persian Empire

Chapter 22

The Rise of Athens and Sparta

Plato

Chapter 23

The Golden Age of Greece

Chapter 24

Battle of Marathon

Battle of Salamis

Parthenon

Peloponnesian War

Alcibiades

Acropolis in Athens

Chapter 25

Philip II of Macedonia

Alexander III

The Split of Alexander’s Empire

The Pharos (Lighthouse) Of Alexandria

Hellenistic World

Grecian Empire

Chapter 26

The Olmecs

The Ancient Native Americans

The Nazca

Chapter 27

The City of Rome (Romulus and Remus)

The Etruscans

Roman Republic

Chapter28

Appius Claudius Caecus

Roman Empire

The Roman Aqueducts

The Appian Way

Roman Gladiators

Chapter 29

The Punic Wars

Hannibal

Scipio Africanus

Chapter 30

Ancient India and Hinduism

Buddha

Aryans Invade India

Chapter 31

Emperor Asoka of India

The Mauryan Empire

Chapter 32

Ancient China

The Qin Dynasty

The Great Wall of China

Diamond Sutra

Terracotta Army

Chapter 33

Confucius

Chapter 34

Gaius Julius Caesar

First Triumvirate

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Chapter 35

Gallic Wars

Pompey the Great

Cleopatra

Crossing the Rubicon

Brutus

Chapter 36

Augustus Caesar

Roman Empire

Chapter 37

Birth of Jesus the Christ

Jesus, His Teachings And Miracles

Crucifixion of Jesus

The Resurrection of Jesus

Tiberius Caesar

Chapter 38

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Chapter 39

Persecution of the Early Church

Nero

Constantine I

Chapter 40

Boadicea

Diocletian

Maximian

Chapter 41

Attila The Hun

Stilicho

Alaric

Chapter 42

Romulus Augustulus

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire

The Byzantine Empire Begins

Julian Calendar

I am not receiving any remuneration from either Story of the World or Homeschool in the Woods for this post or any of the links in it.

One of the fun things we did while we were in Colorado was to take the Estes Park Aerial Tramway. It’s an older tram and fairly small, which probably makes more fun. My older kids had been on a tram several years ago at Sandia Mountain in New Mexico, but not all of them even remember it, so this was a new experience or at least seemed like a new experience for a couple of my kids, and they loved it!

There was a beautiful view from the top and a picture just does not do it justice.

But the favorite part of the tram experience was that the gift shop at the top sold peanuts that could be fed to the animals that lived right outside their door. You’ve never seen such fat birds and squirrels, or at least I never had.

If you wanted to learn the ill effects of feeding wildlife, this was a great place to study it. The animals there were fat, demanding and way to comfortable around people, but I guess as long as they stay in the back yard of that gift shop, all will be okay, other than that they will have heart disease from being obese.

Junior Ranger Badges bring mixed reactions in my family. I think they are a fun and educational project. Some of my kids agree with me. Some, well, maybe we won’t go there. So some of my kids had fun getting Junior Ranger Badges this summer, and all got them. We (meaning my kids) earned three badges this summer from the following National Parks: Rocky Mountain National Park, Denali National Park, and Kenai Fjords National Park. They also were able to visit two new states that these parks were in—Colorado and Alaska respectively. A couple pictures of taking the pledge: (Rocky Mountain NP and Kenai Fjords respectively).

A few pictures of the fun we had on our different trips. (Climbing trees in Colorado, standing by an elevation sign that we hiked up to from the Alpine Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park, and setting up camp in Denali NP respectively.)

Scooter is studying Exploring Creation with Botany from the Apologia Elementary Science series. I mentioned that my baby girl started kindergarten this year, and she is doing the Astronomy book from the same series. I rather love the Astronomy book, but unfortunately, I found the Botany book a bit difficult to slog through when I did it with my oldest two several years ago. But we are giving it a try again this year, and hoping for a change of perspective. Scooter is older than my oldest was when we attempted it before, so maybe that will help. The first few experiments have definitely been enjoyable. Here are a couple of fun experiments that we have done so far. The first two pictures are of a light hut that we built, as per the instructions in the textbook and the put in “pots” of newly planted basil, chamomile, and lemon balm. It was a lot of work, so we hope it works!

The next three pictures were from our seed anatomy examinations. We soaked beans and sunflower seeds in hot water for half an hour so that we could carefully peel off the testa and see the inside of the seeds. We also identified the hylum (the seed belly button) of our seeds. The most interesting part of the seed anatomy examination was looking at our seeds through the microscope. You can easily identify the plumule and radicle in the picture that we took through the eyepiece of the microscope.

Well, I have to admit, so far so good on this Botany book. Maybe we’ll really enjoy it this time.

Surprise! I’m posting on my blog! It’s been way too long. I decided that maybe I could sneak in a post, but only because this is a really easy one.

My youngest is studying Apologia Astronomy. This is my second time through this book, but I don’t mind, because I have to admit that it is my favorite from the Elementary Exploring Creation Apologia Series. We are just now in the process of blowing up an inflatable solar system. I don’t know why that is so fun. I think it’s because they are actually just beach balls in a bunch of colors and can be safely thrown at the nearest sibling in the house. Oh, well, hopefully some education is taking place in the midst of this dodgeball that is being played in my house.

While the kids have been throwing planets around at each other, I remembered this really cute solar system song that we sang when we did the Astronomy book four or five years ago. I have been hunting for it for the last half hour, but ta da. (I realize that there are a few things that are not entirely scientific in the lyrics, but I still just think it’s a cute tune to learn the solar system to.)

Learning about Albert Einstein is one of the assignments in the Noeo Physics 1 curriculum. The book that comes with the curriculum is Did it Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? Unfortunately, we found the book to be too dry, so decided to find a different one. Since we wanted to start reading right that minute, we went for a kindle book. We chose the book Who Was Albert Einstein? This book had 106 reviews with the average being 5 stars, so I figured it was a safe bet. Indeed it was. For a short fun read on Albert Einstein, this book was a great pick. Perhaps it was a bit more history and less science than the previous book, but I really don’t think that my third grader needs to understand relativity or E=mc2 too thoroughly, and he definitely enjoyed the history. He was most intrigued that Einstein’s theory of mass to energy conversion played a pivotal roll in the atomic bomb creation, and that Einstein petitioned Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb, but was an avowed pacifist.

Ace did a notebook page (front and back) on Einstein.

Everything was narrated by Ace and I wrote it out for him. The top picture is just his overall report on what we read. The inside of the compass mini book is about how a compass that was gifted to Albert when he was young sparked his love of science. The orange mini book is about the atomic bomb. The cover is a drawing of a mushroom cloud by Ace.

Sources for the notebook page:

Albert Einstein page from Hold That Thought Notebook Pages (out of print)
Compass and Lightbulb mini books from Confessions of a HomeschoolerAtom Bomb mini book by Ace

I know there are dozens of blogs out there about travel, and that’s not what this blog is about, but travel is on my mind, so I decided to share my own travel tips. Well, partly because I couldn’t find any blogs about traveling with a bunch of children. A few, posts here and there, so here’s another one like that. This is my official kids pack and don’t pack list.

I’m not going to debate whether to go carry on or to check your luggage. I’ve done both when traveling with my whole family and there are advantages and disadvantages to both. I will say that one of the disadvantages is that sometimes I have to carry everybody’s luggage at once, because little backs get tired (and my husband always has his computer bag) and no matter how light each bag is, light x 6 = heavy. One of the disadvantages to checking the luggage is that checked luggage x 6 = expensive. On the last trip that we went on, we had intended to go carry on, and then my husband and I were just tired thinking of carrying everybody’s stuff through the airport, so we put most of the duffels into two large duffels, and then manipulated them to exactly 50 pounds each and then checked two bags. Perhaps if we all had rollers, it wouldn’t be so daunting to all go carry-on, but then you have the hassle of finding space for six rollers in the overhead bins. We haven’t tried that yet, but we may someday. We don’t own six rollers right now though. Not sure if there is room in our trunk for six rollers either. That’s partly why we have taken the duffel bag route.

What I’m going to share is a few things I’ve learned to take and a few things I’ve learned to leave home for the kids. This list is assuming they are traveling with a parent, so some obvious things are not on the list (like toothpaste.) If you’re trying to figure out what to pack for yourself, check out onebag.com or herpackinglist.com. This is just a list of things for my kids. Most of our experience has been within the United States. Some alterations might be necessary for international travel with kids. Even our international travel hasn’t involved a flight longer than four and a half hours.

Things to take

Swimsuits (Lots of hotels have swimming pools and the kids will want to swim. Remember your own too.)

Inflatable floaties for the younger kids

Drawing pad and pencils and a dozen crayons or colored pencils. (No more. I promise it will be enough, besides half of them will fall through the cracks in some seat in your journey.)

One book to read for the older children. (Only one book. They won’t read on the plane, unless you’re flying across the ocean. They won’t read at your destination, because there is so much new to see. So they definitely don’t need two. If you have an ereader for your child, then I guess, you can have different rules.)

iPods. (Take time to load some new audio books on before trip. And consider some lullaby music even for the big kids.)

Clothes (Duh! Not going to define what kind of clothes to take or how much. It really depends on the trip. Just don’t take more than you need. Quick dry clothes are very nice and light though, sweaters are super bulky.)

Did I mention toys? Okay maybe one Matchbox car would be acceptable for both boys and girls. Dolls are just a headache.

Extra changes of clothes for anybody over three, but have enough underwear. (I have learned from some of these packing blogs that it’s not too bad to have to wash a few clothes out in the sink and hang them over the shower rod to dry. It works out quite fine, and saves money if your checking or saves your back if your carrying.)

Diapers (Take enough for the plane trip. It’s easiest to purchase the rest at your destination, because diapers are very bulky. Now if you’re traveling to a place that charges three times the price on everything in their little tiny corner store, then maybe you should take diapers, but if you are flying, then the town you land in is large enough to have an airport and therefore should be large enough to have a grocery store.)

School work (Well if you must, you must, but none of it will get done. If it’s due the day after your trip, they’ll do it in the middle of the night after you get home. I once hauled an entire suitcase of school work. It was way too heavy, and gave me an unforgettable backache. Next to nothing got done, and I promised myself—never again! Besides, the whole point of travel is to create memories, if all your kids remember from making a trip to Yellowstone is working on their math, you failed.)

Ace has fallen in love with audiobooks. Can’t blame him, I rather love them myself. It allows for him to “read” books that are considerably beyond his reading level, without my having to sit down. Of course, I still take time to sit and read, but the boy has been listening to audiobooks for hours a day, and I can’t read to him for several hours a day, unfortunately.

Last week he listened to the book Man’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist: George Washington Carver. He loved it! George Washington Carver is just every boy’s best friend. After all, he escaped kidnapping; he got beat up and lived to tell about it; he was smarter than his teachers; and he loved dirt and bugs and all those boy kinds of things. That all aside, he makes for a worthy hero, so I love for my boys to admire worthy heroes. And he loved school, which is not a bad thing to encourage boys to love. (I said “boys” because actually others of us enjoyed the book, because we couldn’t escape it as it was being played over speakers loud enough for all of us to not be able to ignore, but fortunately we were all hooked.)

This was a total rabbit trail, and has nothing to do with any of our curriculum, but while we were on a role, we also checked out a book about George Washington Carver for younger kids: A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki and read that. That is a super well illustrated little book that I had read to my older kids once upon a time, and just had to read it again.

Rabbit trail or no, Ace did a notebook page about George Washington Carver and if you ask him to tell you stories, you’d better sit down because it’s going to take awhile. Here are a few of pictures.

Caption for bottom pictures: Left and center bottom pictures are the inside of top mini book in top right photo. Right bottom picture is the inside of the “An Amazing Scientist” mini book.

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